"Thanks for a great remembrance piece, Dick. This holiday is a tough one for a lot of us. My childhood rival and best friend, Cpt. Richard Halpin, was missing in [...]

"In this age of “rational irrationality” voices of reason are in short supply, almost non-existent in Congress. In fact, I sometimes wonder, with all that’s at stake for humanity, [...]

"I’m not holding out much hope that the West will evolve beyond late state capitalistic chumps, Carol, but Reagan and Gorbachev actually negotiated and signed the INF treaty in 1987. [...]

"There are enough distractions going around - some silly, some not so silly, some blatantly obvious. Our Defense Department’s recent “successful” two-week campaign of shooting down Chinese “spy” balloons [...]

"Hi, Pearl.